IT tax repeal has strong backing; replacement funds weighed

Lawmakers really, really want to repeal the computer services sales tax they passed in the wee hours of November?s special session. But they haven?t quite figured out how to replace the money they hoped to rake in.

“The vast majority of members” support repeal, said House Speaker Michael Busch. Even Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, once a strong defender of the tech tax a Senate committee proposed, now concedes there is “consensus that it should be repealed.”